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S 1497 109th Congress Senate Animals Crime and Law Enforcement Eagles Electric power transmission Electric utilities Endangered species Energy Environmental Protection Fines (Penalties) Law Licenses Migratory bird conservation Protection of animals Public Lands and Natural Resources

A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to provide incidental take permits to public electric utilities that adopt avian protection plans.

Introduced: July 26, 2005 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Jul 26, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jul 26, 2005
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Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide an incidental take permit to a public electric utility that has adopted an avian protection plan, if the Secretary determines that the utility has included in the plan specific measures to mitigate hazards to eagles and other migratory birds.

Shields a public utility that receives such an incidental take permit from criminal or civil penalty under specified statutes for the incidental death by electrocution of such birds by a power line during the period the permit is in effect.

What's happening now July 26, 2005

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1497: A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to provide incidental take permits to public electric utilities that adopt avian protection plans.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-1497/
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"S. 1497: A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to provide incidental take permits to public electric utilities that adopt avian protection plans.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-1497/.
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S. 1497, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-1497/.
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